April Ossmann + Connie Post

April Ossmann is the author of Event Boundaries (Four Way Books, forthcoming 2017), and Anxious Music (Four Way Books) and has published her poetry widely in journals including Colorado Review and Harvard Review, and in anthologies. Her poetry awards include a 2013 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant and a Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award. Former executive director of Alice James Books, she owns a poetry consulting business (www.aprilossmann.com), offering manuscript editing, publishing advice, tutorials, and workshops. She is a faculty editor for the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College. She lives in West Windsor, Vermont.

Connie Post is the Poet Laureate Emerita of Livermore (2005 to 2009). Her work has appeared in Calyx, Spoon River Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Slipstream, The Big Muddy, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Her awards include the Caesura Poetry Award, 2nd prize in the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize, and 1st place in the 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize. Her chapbook And when the When the Sun Drops won the 2012 Aurorean Editor’s choice Award. Her first full-length book, Floodwater, was released by Glass Lyre Press in 2014 and won the Lyrebird Award. She is a two-time nominee for the California Poet Laureate.